Doors and Windows

I know I said that I was going to weigh myself once a month, but I got curious.  In eight days I have gained two pounds.

I started with the GYST Challenge because I am the type of person who likes to set up for something before getting started.  I'm all about doing the research first and things like that.  So I figured that getting into a regular sleep schedule and cleaning the pigsty and having school stuff out of the way would make a great start.  It turns out I don't have the luxury of doing weight loss the way I do other things.  For this, I have to just dive in.  Apparently I can't be trusted to just "wing it" on diet and exercise while I set everything up.  That is why I am replacing the GYST Challenge with a new one today. 

The new challenge has to do with food.  I'm calling it the Home-Cooked Challenge, and it is a long one.  I'm going to stay on it until I am in ONEderland.  That could take months, but I was thinking back on all the things I've eaten for the first eight days of June and I realized that I needed something strong and serious to get my eating habits in order.  The challenge is to never eat anything that I did not cook myself.  I eat out a lot, and I almost never make good choices when I do.  I will seriously go out at get half a dozen Krispy Kremes and eat them on the drive home and then hide the box.  It's a serious problem.  So from now until I'm under 200 lbs, I will only eat what I myself have cooked. 

Since the HCChallenge has an indefinite length, I figure I can have two challenges at the same time if I really want to.  I don't currently want to, but once I get used to all the cooking I probably will.  The only rule is, the secondary challenge has to have a time limit.  Only one massive indefinite challenge at a time. 

What I'm Doing Here

I should probably explain my presence.

I am attempting to lose weight.  That is the subject matter of this blog, and the purpose is to have some way of being accountable without having to look anyone in the face and imagine that there's disappointment in it (that's a thing I do). 

I plan on weighing myself and taking measurements on the first of every month.  On June 1st I weighed 250.0 pounds.  Here are my measurements, in semi-nifty Paint style:

And they are sad.

But they'll get better!